{"id":6362,"date":"2010-11-14T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2011-05-15T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:59:44","slug":"life-replicates-art-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/life-replicates-art-kinda\/","title":{"rendered":"Life replicates art, kinda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecord.ca\/articles\/37575\" target=\"_blank\">this article in <em>The Cord<\/em><\/a> points out, it&#8217;s highly ironic that &#8220;at a speech about a book detailing how the police did nothing to uphold the laws of the land the university did exactly the same thing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What was scheduled as a speech by <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> columnist Christie Blatchford turned sour tonight as protesters opposing the journalist&#8217;s new book <em>Helpless: Caledonia\u2019s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us<\/em> took over the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Three protesters locked themselves together at the centre of the stage where Blatchford was meant to speak at the University of Waterloo\u2019s (UW) Humanities Theatre in Hagey Hall, with another individual acting as their \u201cnegotiator\u201d. A fifth, Tallula Marigold, acted as the group\u2019s media representative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want people who are really, really racist teaching [the people we love],\u201d said Marigold of Blatchford. \u201cAnd we don\u2019t want that person to have a public forum because it makes it dangerous for others in the public forum.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If nothing else, the passion of the protesters has persuaded me that I <em>must<\/em> buy and read Blatchford&#8217;s latest book . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As one of the comments on this article in The Cord points out, it&#8217;s highly ironic that &#8220;at a speech about a book detailing how the police did nothing to uphold the laws of the land the university did exactly the same thing.&#8221; What was scheduled as a speech by Globe and Mail columnist Christie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,79,10,28,53],"tags":[637,86,186,351,720],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cancon","category-education","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","tag-caledonia","tag-criticism","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-politicalcorrectness","tag-protest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1EC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9361,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions\/9361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}